Am I lonely? From Philosophy, to Kabbalah, to Chassidus

the yeshiva.net good morning everybody today's class is dedicated by Jay and Robin ticker Messiah in the Merit of moisture Pennsylvania for all the blessings and all thank you so so much we're going to learn the second mimer of the balatanya here on purchase value it's page 28. in Toyota the second column on top erdana in the Hebrew it's you dalit column four on the yeshiva.net we always have the source sheets so you can always also download it over there or open it up over there near the video they have the associates okay 28 column two on the top erdana so this this remind me that we're starting today last week we learned a member about bris departures we learned the mind of Mayim rabam about the flood last week we learned a member about the bris the parojis the muscle of the veil removing it the concept of the Arla the foreskin of existence the change from avram to avraham this is my myth this week parishes was extremely extremely deep mimer very very deep it's very profound as is the previous one of this partial possible which is connected to this one as well it really delves into some of the major themes the Jewish philosophy dealt with and then Kabbalah dealt with machava dealt with dealt with at the surface it could seem very very abstract really as you get more into it you come to discover its uh life-changing applications in real life but this is a journey into some of the fundamental themes that were dealt with throughout the generations and the unique contribution of terrorism and particularly of the balatanya and Chabad said this to these to these questions I'm going to begin this year with a story the connection to the story you'll see later not right now but I just want to begin with a story the Walsh had a student his name was repencres character repencas of courage courage is the town the city where he came from and his first name was repentahus he was one of the greatest students of the Walsh and he was considered also an extraordinary human being very very holy and worked out person and he had many students of his own so the story is that the penthouse character had a student a talmud or a hasid and he was living in hisstettle the person had a very very difficult life now the truth is what you call the difficult life in the stetal in the 18th century times of the balshamative life was not Rosy if you compare it to later stages in history for example life today despite all the tragedy despite the pain that people have but just day-to-day living was uh extremely excruciatingly difficult but within that itself there's levels this person had a particularly what you would call miserable life both in terms of poverty and illness and challenges in the family that every soda that could befall somebody befell him every Sunday he had a lot a lot of problems a lot of challenge a lot of pain foreign he was in his house whatever the house looked like probably called The Hut better and he asked himself the following question does Hashem know everything I'm going through and does he feel everything I'm going through does he empathize does he experience what I'm going through that was a kid now the moment he realized that this question came to him in his mind he said oh this is not good I have to go to the pilgris college foreign I need I need you know recharge realignment so he got into his uh he got into his whatever he had I don't know what he had uh some carriage or horse or went to balagola Wagoneer he got onto the coach to the carriage and he went off to college he came to the penthouse courage sir so there was a stable there where people would put their horses so he walked he went by the porch and to go to the stable repel his courage sir open the window saw him stuck out his head and gave a screaming Yiddish is they also know you think Hashem doesn't know he didn't stop he went back home it was enough that's the mice that's the story a number of years ago I went to the oil of the lubavitcher I've been Queens Montefiore so I went to the mix with it there's a tent over there so I was riding a quittal upon so there was a youth sitting there and he was from the very bigger abundant in Toronto his name is n't his father was a Jew by the name of David who was a thousand he was from The prominent Hamid mintels in Lithuania then he became the rabbi of Basel of Switzerland he escaped the war and he settled in Toronto and he was a the literature world he was a very big common he was a prominent person the shakhat family or most of the shakhat family big minds are his children so this is his oldest son he's a robin Toronto he was sitting there also by the oil I had a grandfather who escaped stalinist Russia and he got a visa to come to Canada so he came to Toronto in 1952. but he had cancer had stomach cancer so he died right soon after he came to Toronto maybe a year later year and a half later in 1953 a very young man 53 and then a year later his wife died my grandmother died she was 44. also in Toronto and they had three children they left my father was the oldest and he had a younger brother and a baby brother he says you know I remember you said when I was uh when I was a young buck and I remember you said his name was rip Simon Simon yakubash he was a Georgian Jew and he was arrested by Stalin in 1938 and he was tortured terribly for years and then sent to the gulag he went through a lot and he came out ultimately but he died shortly after tells me I want to tell you something that I remember that once your met with my father and he said I remember him asking my father one question he said tell me you did she asked my father might say they had stomach cancer it was a lot of pain so he says the rabbit filled the medicine you think the rabbi experiences the pain I have in my stomach tell me what do you think so that's what he told me I remember the story about the pilgras karitz so that's why did he ask the question why did the khasides ask the question because people go through things in life and one of the deepest questions emotionally not just emotionally existentially level is am I alone ultimately am I alone or am I not alone and we all know that there is an instinct sometimes in people to feel that loneliness they experience that loneliness especially I should add if somebody on the good days their attachment is not so powerful or wasn't so powerful as a child so maybe their go-to place is I'm alone in the world and when pain comes up the loneliness just becomes so much more emphasized because when you're doing well you're doing well you know you're on top of the game but when I'm both down and alone it's it's very very difficult and it exasperates it increases the depth of the agony this discussion is at the core of the mimer now the moment doesn't mention the word loneliness doesn't mention the word that you use and doesn't mention uh it seems like a very very Philistine I'm not going to say philosophical in Chabad they say there's two types of my mother and avoida a scholar means it deals with truths of existence and Avada means it deals with personal struggles or personal life the truth is there's no difference they're both the same the huskala my Mariam are all avoida just there in a different language and I avoided my mother based on her scholar the questions is the language that's easily accessible and that you have to discover that's a short introduction to this moment the Mind itself starts off on one of those unique that uh you know it's it's one of those circum like very very moving and very difficult to grasp let's remember the context it's parishes Hashem Hashem comes to visit him in Middle three guests come they turn out to be Heavenly angels they leave he hosts them he feeds them he gives them to drink they bless Sarah and himself with a child they promise a child off they go of their God is dime and then there's a unique scene in Hamish a very rare scene anywhere in Tanakh Hashem starts speaking to himself it's very rare what does he say foreign am I going to really hide from avram my plans it doesn't make sense knowing who avram is how can I not share my vision my plans with usually in Hamish when Hashem wants to tell something to somebody tells it to him he doesn't say should I hide from New York what I'm going to say should I hide from what I'm what I think should I hide from Moshe doesn't work that way no wait nowhere he goes over he says what he wants to say are the things he doesn't say I'm sure does God God could say other things don't say anything he comes to the bush from the bush and the bush marches by a bush he tells him what he wants to tell them what he wants to tell him he says a whole introduction it's almost like he's grappling really I shouldn't be sharing this information it's it's it's confidential this is off limits but how could I like really I shouldn't that's this he's grappling so this is hashem's internal dilemma people read so much fast they don't realize what's happening but it's extremely it's like it's a very intense then he decides I have to tell him so he goes over to him he reveals himself to avram and he starts talking to him about The Horizon's done the outcry the sins the corruption the evil the narcissism the selfishness the cruelty has has gone beyond limits and then he tells his shares the following with just to quote the Apostle because this is going to be the foundation so he tells of ram the cry the zaka the the moral outcry of diamond armor is tremendous it's Titanic the corruption the sin is covered the mind it's extremely heavy I'm going to go down I'm going to take a journey I'm going to descend the error and I'll see there's a sick a line color literal translation I'll go down and see foreign the cry that's coming to me did they indeed do and then I'll annihilate if not I'll know if not I'll know and that's it that's what he tells us from the end of the conversation the people already went to Malachi where they went this Dome of Rama standing in front of Hashem and now starts his whole famous negotiation process maybe this 50th in the city how can you destroy a city when there's 50 and he starts giving the Republic what would say Musa right he says this is completely inappropriate for you you don't kill a Sadiq with Russia this is disgraceful this is mundane well the judge of the whole world not be just you're the judge and you're going to be unjust you're also quite surprised by this conversation you call me the judge but then you tell me I don't know what I'm doing you know what happened to humility yeah and then Hashem says you know what you're right if there's 50 said they come you're right and then avram goes to we all know he goes down all the numbers right what if there's 45 you're right I won't destroy what if there's 40 what if there's 30 one of this 20 whatever there's 10 even 10 I won't destroy and that's the end of the conversation Hashem goes to his Hashem says he goes away goes back to his place the next the next the next pirate ship the next chapter parakeet this is 18 but it's just 18 but age is 19 is the story of Lloyd and it's time the destruction of his duck starts off with what seems like a grammatical issue foreign you would expect he says let me go down and see it doesn't say her cry doesn't say his cry doesn't say their cry her cry so her cry as she comes to me OSU did they do ASU goes from the singular to the plural and can also be masculine or feminine us who they did so you would expect either he says let me go and see their cry the CR the moral outcry that's coming to me did they do it very good you begin with plural you end with plural you start off with singular feminine her cry maybe did she do no did they do that's one change we know that this is a very important question because Rashi himself asks this question and because of this it actually gives different interpretations including that it was a story with a girl a whole girl that's it but this the the that's the one issue the gamma of in Mao is another era foreign what does it mean I'll go down and I'll see basically from here it's very hard to know what's going on I'll have to go down and see and then I'll know what's going on what's going on Hashem is gazing from Heaven he doesn't know what's happening if he doesn't go down again Rashi asks this question it's hard to understand what he means by Aiden I'm going to go down you would think whatever he is he knows in fact if he doesn't know so how does he know what's happening in his time he knows something but he doesn't know all the details like what's going on so it's very ambiguous foreign it's the cry that comes it's the roar that comes from what's called middle sadin the attribute of din of judgment s which is associated in Kabbalah with the middle of dinner and Gamora does a famous expression that's often used literally it means the law of the land is the law a Jew is obligated by Torah to follow the law of the land of course if the law is not morally reprehensible and corrupt but if the law is within the parameters of Shava mitrus a person is obligated and the expression of hazal is it has it has power it has it's the law even Accord but on a deeper level it represents something else especially the redundancy that malchus represents din malchus represents law order structure like the mission says inovis heavy misspell right pray for the welfare of malchus is government leadership the king the queen because without its discipline and fear people would swallow each other up alive complete Anarchy so mauchos represents din structure discipline sometimes penalties consequences as law law and order let's go to law notices that's always feminine will see his feminine it's malachus is feminine you know it ends with a soft and that's why it's feminine and that's the concept of the cry coming from middlesia but in real malhos it's a weak din in other words the point is not to judge and oppress this din akashia is a harsh thing from the word Rafa is soft benign is supposed to be benign it's there for the benefits of the people it's not there to oppress you have a din that's it's kosher it's a baldinum it's very strict means on the contrary I want the benefit of everybody and that's why you have to have Law and Order you have boundaries as the plastic says a king establishes his country through mishpat through Justice and you can't change Justice for every person because then there's no justice right you can't say oh you know I like you so therefore you know you could steal you have to have it but the point is mishpat mishpat means fearness Justice why because you're talking about it says Esther talking about the women that brought in order to choose a new Queen but elavid remember how they come at night and they go back in the morning speaks to about how she was dealing with all the girls that were brought so but every it says so the word bar refers not to the masculine but to the feminine but this is because we're talking about ah we're talking about who's feminine so it says that's his introduction to the answer which he's going to get back to obedient to understand all of this is [Music] we first have to introduce hazal a language that is common in in hazal in other words if you learn through Shahs in many misectors of Shahs and midrashim you have this expression what's the expression it's revealed and known before he who spoke and the world came into being this is an expression often in Gomorrah you have it in aravind and in kadushan and Hulen and in Sanhedrin and in other places and in madrasham go live almost in a passive way it doesn't say expression usually is not as Hashem it says it's known it's revealed and known right it's known usually a person says I know or he knows or she knows or I'm aware but here the language that hazal usually use when they want to describe Divine knowledges it's known it's revealed why is this their expression rather than saying Hashem knows foreign the philosophers nilu the word nilu means they were exhausted by the concept of the word Nila means exhausted we worn out tired perturbed something that exhausts you that that confuses you it's overwhelming it's called Neelam yeah because it was all bloody they were they were too exhausted they were always trying to drink water they couldn't there was blood nilu huh Leia of us Leia yeah means exhaustion and then the third eye patches later we learned that my mom if you remember right you think you're married huh you think you marry Rocco and you marry Leia and then you have to figure out that it's always in layer with the relationship Alma discussion so he says a philosopher the philosopher is nilu they grapple terribly with the theme of practice for example the gamarius says a person doesn't stub naikov means stub person doesn't stub his finger below unless there was an announcement above in other words even such a what would seem small and inconsequential event like stubbing your finger Nike means Unger clapped you bang your finger right even that is preceded by there was an announcement in heaven that was announced this finger should be stopped practice doesn't just mean there's a system there's an algorithm and everything just follows the algorithm practice algorithms algorithms are God for are good for artificial intelligence and computers means individual Providence the word is protest not close the philosophers just drove them crazy the word is nilu it drove them crazy this concept and and for a good reason the reason he's going to give us a very sophisticated reason it's not most people would think the reason is going to be because oh God cares well he doesn't care the reason he gives there is a very deep reason why they grappled with individual Providence individual Divine Providence for every detail you know you could say it's too much it's too much to deal with but today in the computer age we know that's not a question right to quote the princess character Google knows Google those God doesn't know you put on your phone you could see me from Australia God can't see me that limitation that people used to think well he knows he sees Google Sees Google knows outs they know where I am what I'm doing I'm still gonna get a note but it's algorithms today is not a pillar right between once the radio got developed and then television telegrams and radio and television and computer Revolution now the internet Revolution it's half full of a fella you see the world as a bedroom what bothered them was something much deeper essentially doesn't make sense why so he says as follows this is a sophisticated question since he is one and singular means one and only and you could mean singular and the one truth is life is made up of detail after detail after detail after detail everything is comprised of tiny little small details how can you say that he knows he's aware of the details and the providences individualistic meaning it's detailed it's nuanced Allah says it means that his mind is constantly tuning in to endless diverse nuances and details this represents ultimate Multiplicity thinking about something means I'm occupied with it I didn't have it I didn't know it before and I know it now so in other words there is change I'm comprised of many different aspects if you're taking it seriously we use the word practice I was walking out of the bank one day somebody sees me says I have to talk to you I need a half an hour I will push that to go somewhere this year so I said you'll forget you'll forgive me but if I leave now I should have a sheer it's also going to be even if you didn't meet me it's all such a practice when something works out the way I like it you say it's if I miss the airplane if I don't find the parking places they said it's really it it's constantly redefining God so he's busy with this he either he's occupied with it he's not occupied with it and so many proton means it's not asked us the philosophers understood that Hashem and even the early philosophers that were not Jewish understood that the world has a cause the first cause but the first cause you can't Define you can't compartmentalize it's runs contrary to that I'm engaged it's like if you're aware of somebody's details you're constantly changing in the process if you tune in some people detach a knife we understand this emotionally but if you tuned into life right if you tuned into people's experiences and people's emotions you change it you don't change you're not this stoic robot you're constantly changing emotionally and intellectually I'm learning new things every moment when you're in a relationship people are changing means I'm aware I'm going to talk with every single detail and life is made up of details it's not made up of some abstract Trends and undefined reality we don't live in that world so it was much easier to say God is one and there's knowledge he's in a world of Singularity and we live in the sandbox of of a lot a lot of details and it was it was a simpler it was a simpler algorithm for philosophy this idea that you're stubbing your finger and Hashem is really involved in that and it's not one person stubbing their finger it's every detail 24 7 of every person in existence and according to the shital not just a person but every animal and not just an animal but every blade of grass and every leaf and not just a blade of grass but every grain of sand and Flake of flake of snow and every Adam and every cell and every detail in this planet and in every planet in the entire Cosmos spiritually and physical and it's all about practice laws of nature that everybody agreed with practices that within those laws those laws of nature practice but the point is that it's not a system you're right if it's a system and you're removed from the sin you can go home you made a system you could retire you're right that's what they time it can't escape right and that's and that's part of that protest that's part of that process that's the hitters of our protest that even the stubbing of the finger right the fact that this this law is happening right now it's part of an active Act of Creation even the laws of nature in other words there's systems that could create it and those systems work he says a philosopher if you learn if you learn the philosophers that's what they grappled with he wants to understand about time wants to understand wanted to answer this their Calvin was to answer this question with one statement when they said that's why they use the words the reason they use this expression golivia Dua was the balatanya says to answer this question how does it answer it is to explain that there's a different type of knowledge hashem's knowledge is not like a person's knowledge of a person's mind grasp something um initially he wasn't aware of this or she wasn't aware of this now when I become aware of this thing how they die to him will the best zoo so now my mind by definition needs to be involved engaged in clothed almost like I'm getting dressed I have to go into this shirt I have to go into this pair of pants mentally I'm engaged my mind is now entering and engaged with this idea with this person with this awareness with this emotion the person's mind is engaged with this thought that is now focused you have to tune in zoom in or zoom out to grasp it because prior to this knowledge the mind was vacant or was involved in something else so now there's a change and there's an effect the person is constantly learning or discovering new things and there's a change on every level mentally and emotionally and physically and spiritually and his Pilots the person is affected I'm shaking the Milo so hazal coming to say when you're talking about hashems but Hashem knowing all the worlds and the details of the Worlds is enclosed and therefore defined by it grasped by it it's almost like it contains him it defines him that's why they use the words it's revealed and known it would be like it's knowing automatically it's known the ancientious in order to know something he doesn't have to be enclosed in it and defined by it and contained by it that it would create a change or it would create Multiplicity this is true about knowledge so therefore it's also true about me called because it's even more than this he gives life to us everything he creates everything what about that he says we are they're talking about knowledge or Providence what about creation he's creating everything and everything means all of the systems and all of the details not by becoming defined by that thing but rather as explained in different my modem including Antonia 48 chapter 48 through 7 means he encompasses all of the Worlds he gives an example of Tanya sometimes a person a man imagine you imagine the planet in your head or you imagine a rock in your head or a person in your head the whole person is in your head the whole person is there but by us it's just a thought the physical reality is not there silver kalaman is the concept yeah that hashems thought actually creates that reality but how does it create it he says it's called safe of Columbus Oklahoma means it transcends being defined by the item that's created because sort of creation doesn't demand that he is now defined by this limited thing that was created so knowing it knowing it and its details doesn't have to be what's called through his slap shows the splashes means engagement being enclosed with fisa being defined by it the key one show golevia Dua and because hazar used the word golivia do it it's known and revealed ain't Shia is so the question that there's multiplicity there's multiplicity in Hashem is not a question this is when you're talking about the species of a person and his or her type of knowledge she is he can't know anything unless his mind and his thought are engaged and enclosed themselves in knowing that thing and in that process there is addition and change the this is the meaning of the Posse my thoughts are not your thoughts why can you go Louis via Dua because it's revealed and no and everything is known and revealed but they don't use the word he knows and he says in parentheses the person who's very perceptive or very uh very aware of this type of wisdom will appreciate the subtlety of these words not every brain will contain this this is a statement the mountain doesn't usually make these statements even though you could probably say it about every member but he wants to make the statement about what he just said just like one of the question was their question was when a person is aware of things right it changes me the moment I didn't know now I didn't know about this now I do know about it and even the process itself is a changing process it's not just to have new information a person has to be engaged this becomes part of me so I'm constantly going through change a person a person is not an abstract singular Transcendent reality it's called murkov there's something called Actos or something called murkov Actos means one Markov means we're composite everything is composite of many we're compartmentalized so if there's a weirdness of everything of every detail in the world this was their time now so that's a form of Engagement that's a form of change this is no they believed the idea that there was no God because of modernity even the Ancients they believe there's something there's a source Maslow Aristotle right he was considered the greatest Greek philosopher he believed that the world is a kadamite in other words there is a primal Source the world was also always there and that was baklav idea the Big Bang changed that the 1920s then the 1960s that there was actually a beginning but their their idea was that the definition of the way they defined Hashem which made sense to them the algorithm they gave for God was that it's unchangeable unmovable unchangeable so what's the balatonya saying here this question was dealt with by the Jewish philosophers right the rambam for example the rambam addresses this foreign that famous rambam that by a person there's three things that's his expression what's the rambam saying he also uses the word like you said he knows himself and from that he knows everything else so this is the rambam's way of answering how philosophically Hashem knows everything even though he's singular because he just has to know himself to give an example this is an example of the ramblement it's not my example the guide to the perplexed Ram's example is as follows very interesting example there's a difference between a Craftsman who builds a vessel he knows the vessel I also know the vessel but there's a difference what's the difference between the knowledge of the one who built it and the knowledge of the one who sees it after it was built or a piece of music that was written by a composer he knows the music I also know the music but there's a difference what's the difference an architect builds a house or contractor builds a house I also know the house but there's a difference between him or her knowing the house and me knowing the house what's the difference the rambam says that the Craftsman the ubon he knows the vessel before there was a vessel in fact his knowledge is the cause of the vessel the reason there's a vessels because there's knowledge The Vessel comes from him the music comes from him I know the vessel I know the house I know the music from the music from the house from The Vessel after it was created to put it this way in a philosophical terms what's the symbol what's the Muslim what's the cause and what's the effect for me the house is the cause and my knowledge is born from the from the cause my knowledge is the effect that comes after the cause there's a house I come into the house I look at it I study it up now I know it I look at this vessel and I'm like look at this wow my knowledge follows the reality of the vessel for the one who made it what followed What the cause is him the vessel of the massive the vessel is an effect from the music is born in his soul and his passion it was Beethoven was one of the greatest composers he turned deaf he still wrote music he didn't he couldn't even hear his music he was at some point he was completely deaf and he wrote compositions he wrote Symphonies brilliant Symphonies he couldn't even if he walked it he couldn't hear the music it was completely born within his imagination and then there were notes when I hear the music the music is December you understand what I'm saying and I'm the my knowledge for the creator of this music or this vessel of this house it's the other way around they don't know the music from the music they don't need to know the vessel from The Vessel he knows it all from from his apps so the rambam says knowing himself he knows everything why because everything essentially comes from that so it's not that I have to engage with the thing and know it and study it and analyze it no all I have to do is Know Myself what does God what does it mean God's self-knowledge he says that's God's infinite knowledge so that's the expression it's revealed and known not I know I go and I have to learn it and study it from the Missouri from the from the world I get to know it I know what's happening inside of you because you tell me because I watch but it all is from him so if it's all of him all he has to know him is himself and automatically everything is known that's what the rambam titles that's what kazamin golivia do and therefore they could be awareness of everything and it doesn't compromise infinite Singularity and the Transcendence golivia Dua that's why they use the words Gulliver it's known it's known their problem was that it's known that even that he knows and and every Pratt yeah so that's what they explained Tomatoes they were okay with the fact that an impotent omnipotent God we don't know where he began they don't know where he ends yes that they have they're okay they're only not okay that's what he said in parentheses if he creates a whole world the question shouldn't only be on knowledge the question Beyond creation how come from Singularity come diverse creation that's his question that's what he says in parentheses instead of asking a question on knowledge or Providence ask a bigger question you created it all not only you know it and the world everyone knows is diverse and the world is constantly in a dynamic and a change so the balotanya's time is according to this that Gulliver is a knowledge and a creation in economy because creation also this creation like a famous expression in possible a similar expression we seem took a Zimmerman Taylor he commanded and they were created when they were created he created them it's like Olivia Dua they were created from Infinity they were created without Infinity changing and being consumed by the details just as a knowledge why because the creation doesn't Define me the creation is defined by me I Define it it doesn't Define me it comes from his believable from his answer now here you have right here you have a classic representation of the concepts that float through philosophy in general through Jewish philosophy in particular that the philosophers tried to constantly protect God so I'm using the word protect Shield Hashem from Corporal Corporal reality from changing from from from being vulnerable from multiplicity from being imperfect from getting emotional from having moods from going through processes why because philosophically that was a big problem because by definition if you want the creator of matter space and time he has to transcend matter he has to transcend time he has to transcend space he has to Trent then you know every kid asks the father so who created Hashem by the big debates atheists love saying okay so the world needs a Creator right because it's so intelligent it's so intricate granted and who created the Creator oh checkmate [Laughter] so the creator also needs to create it so thank you so why doesn't the Creator need a creator that album has an expression it's intrinsic to reality what makes it intrinsic to reality so any of the properties of creation couldn't be applied to the Creator because if any of the properties of creation would be applied to the Creator what would happen then who created the Creator the cell needs a creation right a Creator right the Big Bang needs a Creator yeah the atom needs a Creator so who created the creator of the cell he's also a cell so if you apply any properties of creation to Creator you're stuck so the philosopher the Jewish philosophers were very sensitive to this today people don't read so much the works of Jewish philosophy but if you read The Works of the beside you're gone he was one of the greatest Jewish philosophers ever it's a safer Muniz if you read The Works of the Ramba who was considered the greatest Jewish philosopher you read The Works of their al-bago Levy Ben Garcia you read The Works of the barbanell or Ben Gabriel was in Spain or abuse of Alba wasn't spending what a safer called safer the the parts of the deal with philosophy I'm just giving a few of the big works this is a very big theme God is unmoved he's unchangeable nothing changes him I he knows so say he doesn't know they didn't want to say because I'll never say he doesn't know the whole matinee is based on the fact that he knows but he does know he doesn't know he created who he didn't create so this is the struggle so go leave your doer there's some type of algorithm where he knows everything without being moved engaged compromised defined limited by it because it's go Louis via Dua let's go Olivia door where would I have to know something I gotta learn about it I'm a changed person it changes me it adds to me because my mind made up of many different details but his mind is infinite he's the knower he is the knowledge and he is the known that abom says he's the knower he's the knowledge he needs to know but here there's a big problem what's the problem this is where Kabbalah took a very sharp turn from philosophy if you really read the Tanakh God is very vulnerable throughout the whole time he gets upset at the world he regrets it he falls in love with it he's angry he's upset I love you I'm hurt by you I'm crazy about you you're overwhelming me right the whole commercial it's a relationship it's very very intense it doesn't look like he's not moved it doesn't look like some Transcendent being that I can't even talk about the Philosopher's new hummus very well so what do they always say deep rhetorical doesn't mean anything it says doesn't mean he's not angry and he doesn't smell it he doesn't hear it he doesn't talk he doesn't see it he doesn't feel and he doesn't we warn that people should somehow appreciate it so it's called anthropomorphisms which means we apply human attributes to the Divine but don't take it seriously you can't take it seriously not only that some people who only learn that when they hear there was a teacher not long ago and a particularly Yeshiva who's very into philosophy and he turned to the boys the girls high school here in Manhattan near Manhattan and he said to them does Hashem love you and they all heard from their parents that Hashem loved them they said yeah and he said that's epicursus and he explained to them this is before us you are all Heretics besheig of course huh okay yeah the point is he wanted God loves you really God loves you really love love what does love mean love means I'm needy I'm vulnerable you add something to me and without you I don't have that love I need validation really this is how do I know a mother called me and she wanted to know if you're allowed to tell your children that God loves them so it says but that's not real it's an anthropomorphism you want to say that God will do things to you as though he loves you he gets angry he's not angry can't get angry can't get angry means you're needy I need you I'm disappointed I'm frustrated right I'm you're angry why because you have traumas so God also has trauma why is he getting angry well he didn't well did he have attachment or not he didn't have parents huh artificial intelligence right a computer but I'm explaining this to you because this is how philosophy worked but the word the point that's why the biggest question is why he created the world we create everything because we have a need if you have no needs you don't create things nobody goes to work to create a product because they have they need either they want to make the world a better place or they want to make a couple of dollars or both that's how we create hospitals because of needs we create Universe places of Education because of needs what do you do not because of a need we planned grain because of a need we plant fruits because we build houses because of needs if you don't have a need you don't do these things okay schlafen that's a big problem why did Hashem create the world he says it's a stupid question to ask yeah you see he got so upset at the question he says that's what he wanted I don't know kabola went into a whole different world if you read zeihar for example which is not philosophy it's Kabbalah there's a tremendous sense of romance and vulnerability the partis one of the greatest couples of Marcia Devero writes this is very sharp he says that whoever doesn't learn Kabbalah is an epicitis so the balatanya has a mind he says why he said doesn't mean it's not precarious he means if he's a thoughtful person so if I leave carus that's what the Valentine explains the part of this there are Mac or magical River if he's a thoughtful person if he's not thoughtful he's not an africanist if he's thoughtful why Max says why because ultimately with Jewish philosophy alone God is detached zolzine he knows everything go live but where does he know it he knows it from himself ultimately my experience he doesn't know because he knows my experience from himself he knows the vessel from his own Infinity but can God attach himself I go back to the beginning of the story wanted to know if he can empathize with my pain does he feel the pit in my stomach of course he feels the pit in my stomach or no everything is his system so he knows the pit from his himself there's no relationship to put it differently empathy means You're vulnerable what does it feel like you're dating your wife you want to get engaged okay so you want to you want to excite her that you're in a good relation that she has a good that you're a good guy okay so think about what you advise us to yourself call the girl listen I want to tell you something about me I'm an unbelievable guy and I have everything I don't need you for anything which is amazing because you never have to do anything for me in fact you can't do anything for me why can't you do anything for me because I don't need it but that's amazing you know why because if you behave nicely you're going to get everything from me because I have everything to give you you don't have to give you can't give me anything but if you behave and you're a good wife you're gonna get infinite blessings and remember you never have to feel that I'm needy that I'm vulnerable that you can even change me in other words you could be in the most miserable mood I'm fine I'm always perfect and you can always come to me and if you behave I'll help you how would your uh kala respond to that proposition right there's nothing there's nothing you can do there's nothing that will get me angry nothing it's all for your benefit for example if you don't show up for three months we're good oh it's just for you if you behave I'll make believe I love you and I'll give you everything even though I can't really love because I'm completely I'm infinite why won't that impress her I'm asking What's missing so I'm on vacation huh there's no connection right there's no connection the connection is only I'll give you things and when I give you it looks like I'm I'm affected by you but really I'm not so that's what the part of this meant that there is an element of Detachment that's created maybe a coldness a philosophically maybe it works but there's a certain lack of passion now the philosopher will say tough luck just because you want to be romantic it's not our problem it's not our problem yeah you're right you can't do anything for Hashem you're right so Kabbalah shifted and over there in Kabbalah God is very very vulnerable and when the Toyota uses Expressions I love you and I'm hurt the Kabbalah will say it's very authentic so the pilot says how they didn't know all of this so he says that's why they introduced the concept of essence essospheres what's asospheres asospherus means God has a personality in philosophy there's no spheres there's no artzilus the world the word Silas doesn't exist in Jewish philosophy only in Kabal what'silis is God's world the world in which hashem's personality exists he's a person he's an Adam there's a Persona of the Divine one second but this is against everything they said these the thought undefined and singular or to put it differently the part is just continues the question don't think yeah don't think that Hashem is just completely removed and absolutely undefined there's a whole personality okay so the question of the philosophers instead of having the question in this world you have the question about Solus so God is defined so God is compartmentalized so God is changing so God that has moods so God has emotions so what do you want from them so you did it in that syllis he has spirits so that's that's the real the pandas so now that reason came along the Ariza was a student of the remark and the reason said without the symptom you can't understand it you have to know that he was the first one to talk about that symptom is that there was a Quantum Leap in a safe pre-creation and post-creation called it Simpson God withdrew is infinity and created an empty space and over there there was a little light that came back and created the world and over there is so now comes the next question so so what is this so preach them to him you're right God is unmovable he's undefined he's infinite boasts him to what happens so God makes like a new God okay now I'm vulnerable what what is this because now I'm really small not small but I'm fine I'm more or less finite with this so the last step is that symptom is not computer that's the last step there's another text another version of this Monument from the balatanya that was written by another writer this was more brief it's printed in my Marriott in the red set so he literally goes through he says there was a question of the philosophers there was the answer intimated by hazal goliathu and articulated by the rambam there are Mach departed says still we're missing something major because it means there's no connection and the whole Tanakh is based on a connection in other words not that he knows it as a computer a computer also doesn't get affected I was thinking for a muscle I just realized the computer is avoided the commercial computer knows everything right and much better than anybody else but you're not getting married to your computer and it seems like the whole you describe is based that this episode relationship according to this there's no relationship so there are my Cayman said no no no you have to have Essence Fitness you have to have attilis and if not he says epicurus why because one of the two either God will be detached from you or he's going to become just another human being so he's not Hashem anymore the two are both problematic atilis Spirits are the Malian Kabbalah save that the problem is what did you just do you just did the same equation just with different words thank you so you turned God again into a personality that I can affect came the Ariza and said no you have to note Simpson solves it but LaTanya has a lotion the real answer is that simple but all the symptoms does is what does it tell me so that Russia made himself who is God like the question is they can God kill himself you know can God make another God can God make a stone that he can't pick up so what was it symptom is a joke it's real it's not so then comes this my man another my murder of the balatanya to Define what symptom means what symptom really means what diarrhea meant and therefore what they're about meant and therefore what is at the core of Jewish philosophy because it's really at the end of the day not contradictions it's just emphasizing different truths and what does the soul bring us to what's the conclusion of all of it the conclusion of all of it is the ultimate what does it mean the ultimate Act of Hashem the ultimate fusion and unity of all reality with its true core which is its infinite Oneness without the need to amputate any part of that reality whether it's emotional vulnerability intellectual change and generally the vicissitudes and the changes of people So In This Moment now the balatanya takes a big jump he finished saying golivia Dua that's the need philosophical equation where we dismissed God up there so you have a computer you have a super computer they call it you have a super super computer you have artificial intelligence Ai and then you have God's computer the ultimate computer the source of all the computers and it's more than the computer you have to feed the knowledge into how does my computer know everything the computer has to be fed the knowledge once he has that knowledge through the internet or even before the internet whatever you fed the computer he does huffle of a fella the super super Divine come you don't have to feed the knowledge into him on the contrary that's the source of all the knowledge that's the source of all computers so it's a system that's very very uh what's the word for it it's a system that's in many ways predictable some people love it because it's very safe so to speak right I wouldn't say non-judgmental it's just very it's very technical yeah it's almost like there's no emotions and and and there are people even that have a to that in Yiddish kite you're not supposed to have too many emotions because it it interferes with this makes sense what I'm saying it interferes it's much better if there's like a system and computer there's reward there's punishment it's going to make it's going to be as though I'm getting angry that you don't have a motion good question not to be in denial but ultimately it's a disturbance for avoida Sasha people may not be able to articulate it consciously but emotions are too messy they're too chaotic they're scary they're overwhelming and they are they are Kabbalah is very intense Everything is Everything is intimacy and relationships and it's it's tuck it's hard to understand it's very mystical it's extremely mystical the Zoya in the writings Everything is Everything is about Unity and you're always affect you're always affecting heaven know what's above you beautiful know what's above you right not Uncle Sam came the balatanya from the market it says whatever is up there is from you it's all from you dumb Hashem God is your shadow so what does the philosopher say a shadow when it's sunny outside right you go under the shadow of a tree to protect yourself from the scorching heat the mashem what's a shadow a shadow always emulates you you move your hand the shadow moves you take a step to Shadow Hashem Hashem is your Shadow he responds to you that's a very different type of language so one second so the ramak says yeah you're right preach pre-atzillus no way no way I'm moved after axillus yeah I have a personality I have me dice you can affect me in fact you made this come from my middles this world is a mirror of his world that's a couple of idea that's not a philosophy idea philosophy idea God created the world the world doesn't mirror him and Kabbalah everything mirrors him sorry exalica from my flesh I see God what's the meaning of that verse again classical Philosophy from my flesh I will perceive God's judgment by studdings your psychology you'll find out who Hashem is you understand because you're a mirror but now we're back to the square one so the reason said you need symptoms the symptom only makes it more confusing what happened there so the last step the last step before to bring all to bring together the actors that's that's the contribution of sidhus especially the writings of the altareba that's what he tries to do in this moment so now the mind that takes a serious shift a serious shift and I want to it's late I want to finish I just want to do one more line just to begin the shift to the next stage and we'll continue basing Hashem tomorrow okay we'll continue tomorrow 7 45. it's not the contradiction that go with your door it's very clear it absolutely can be done explain because every every object in the world in a way is known right just imagine that somebody designs this world with all the sensors possible I know just like a car right car has a sensors which like if the engine gets the wrong gasoline whatever it is it's no it's no to the computer of the car or and ultimately to the internet and the and the the brand the central the designer the designer that something is wrong or and know exactly what it is so you can understand today with the internet that you know there is a what Jake Henson computer right that or one the internet is a computer you know if you think about it right so the internet is a computer that everything is connected and everything is absolutely known every system and subsystem in the world is connected there is no it's just one part of like today it's very simple understand for game designer that you know everything you create like you and it creates such a diversity you create different characters that interact and everything else you create the physical reality the this reality virtual reality mixed reality whatever it is so everything is created and as a designer you know exactly you know exactly what it is and people and the designer wants people to to Divine against when other people are going through which games so if they get even though he greedy he still gets knocked people are enjoying the monastery it is the fact that he designed it right but today today there is a paragraph in other words you say that for the computer you learn the model that you don't have to engage right your time your energy your personality with every detail yes you do because on the contrary you can be detached because you deserve since it comes from you right if attacker would if attack independent of you you're right you have to go study it correct but since it's all began with your algorithm right right and your design and your dream and your talent so ultimately the whole system is created in a way that all the information is available I know it's a beautiful beautiful explanation I mean there is such thing as a Jewish philosophy and they stop at the point but according to work as a Creator that's it perfect perfect the kabola is actually becomes like for me when I started it when I was young and I sinned a lot you know I I started then for me Kabula was in mathematics what do you mean you take you take uh you know the model of the Earth and you bring it into the tens viewers and you create the mathematical model how it works and it was the same thing and you exactly pointed out so the rebe which is the next step or serious is the next step which is it's actually right the a resource that was was understanding of sim Civil War computer but local computer was already yeah in other words the problem is with Kabbalah it's also now instead of being a physical algorithm it's mathematics it's a spiritual algorithm that's right Spirits yeah so what's the idea that the algorithm is a spiritual one so it's a chemistry the sphere is the sphere with that Spirit that's really that's true parts of him all this so you're back to the same problem so it's another system that's known to him but it can't be him unless you're defining him unless you're making a movement so then came the idea of the question of symptoms so it's a one God was changed into a new girl right now you made him a split personality just preaching some God is unmoved okay so now you made me two cards regarding the very very powerful how it evolved in history it couldn't start with this way it couldn't start with that because it has to it had to goodness a lot of these questions hail compared to the Hopeless question like like the kid asked who created Hashem you know that right here what do you think the rabbi said explain what the regular school it's not it's not yeah my mother called me and she said that her son is 40 years old whatever they the teenager he came home teacher said that it's up to courses to say that Hashem is ready I don't care what type of school it is because he was very into Jewish philosophy says that you can't say Hashem love sorry when it says when it says in Tanakh he loves you um it's an anthropomorial it's a metaphor but we the mighty no matter what even if you do the word surveyor I'm explaining to you what he was telling them that it's not to use emotional emotional means you're you're flaky not flaky But You're vulnerable vulnerable yeah you're human you're you're weak I love you I don't love you I hate you I'm angry I'm crazy about you what's your second traditional such a God who creates such a world vulnerable this class is brought to you by the yeshiva.net please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at triple w dot the yeshiva.net donate